Repeal of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments

[Clint Counts]

How the 17th Amendment Has Stolen Your Freedom From the AIP Platform: Repeal of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments We consider the federal income tax to be destructive of our liberty, privacy, and prosperity. Therefore, we are working to bring about its complete elimination and the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We recommend that the current system be replaced by an equitable, simple, noninvasive, visible, efficient tax, one that does not destroy or even infringe upon our economic privacy and liberty. We also call for the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment. Its enactment greatly reduced the power of our state legislatures and state governments – which are much closer to the people – and damaged our system of federalism.